Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-09-09

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Will Hough took in the excursion to
Petoskey, Tuesday.
II. +. u. Schneider is at Merideth on
hunting expedition.
Fine Box Paper; forty shades OF
French tissue ut webb's
Come to the rink next Tuesday eve
ming if You want to see fun.
If You want good smoke, you will
find the NJ. b. Cigar the best.
Walter Green, of the Sanitarium, has
returned to his home at Ann Arbor.
Mr.. Ed Harms, of Toledo, o., is as
sisting Nick Davidson the barber.
Ronk Il Baughman are opening up a
fall stock of Dry Goods this week.
Two second hand stoves for sale or
trade for wood. Enquire at this office.
For Ladies and Gents gold filed case
watches 90 to Pequegnat X Sons, Al
ma.
Prof. Lewis Stuart, of the Alma
College, and wife are at the Wright
House.
Mrs. F. NJ. Milliken and her son
Bert, are visiting friends at Fenton
this week.
Gen. y. Church and family expect TO
take trip to Europe the last of this
month, to be gone two years.
NJ. ID. Faughner is busy putting in
his machinery and expects to be AT
work soon making the excelsior fly.
Remember that 7. y. Miller Il Co.
carry a full line of school books and
stationery at the Central Drug store.'
Marcus Pollasky member Of the State
Board of Correction and Charities. met
with the board at Ionia, last Friday,
JAS Gargett and family expect to
leave the last of this week. for st. An
drews Bay, Florida, to spend the win
ter.
Fourteen new locomotives are being
built for the T., \. y. Il n. NJ. road,
four of which will soon be put on the
line.
c. w. Yerington has been requested
by some of the business men Of Alma
to start an evening class in short
hand.
NJ. &. Palmer, a prominent attorney
of Stanton was in town, Monday, on
his way to Mt. Pleasant on professional
business.
A Donkey party will be given at the
skating rink next Tuesday evening, to
increase the building fund of the Epis-
copal church.
Young Rogers, who has been running
a one horse grocery and an egg wagon,
has moved his stock to the grange hall,
so we are informed.
Montigel e Co. have Just completed
Il fine canopy top carriage for Mrs. Dr..
Dumont of Crystal Lake. To say that
it is beauty does not express it.
Mr.. Rudolph Walters, assistant to
Foreman Carroll OF the T.. & \. a q,
has been appointed foreman of section
26, take the place of Carroll resigned.
The Gargett store the first store
building built in Alma located south of
NJ. Pollasky residence. is being torn
down and the lots will be occupied by
the Pork Packing institution.
-Four hundred school children, from
two TO -four times per day, wade through
the dust or mud between Gargett's cor
ners and the iron bridge. If it is not
the duty of private property owners.
why does not the corporation fill this
break in the sidewalk. the present de
mand for which has existed more than
a year?
Every man should subscribe and pay
for his local paper. \ man in Dakota
neglected to do this and now his wife
is widow. He went to neighb0r 5
the other day to borrow paper. and
while returning was struck by lightning
and instantly killed. We always thought
that kind providence was on the coun-
try editors side, but never before heard
of a practical demonstration.
Il understand that the scheme to
build a street railway between this city
and Alma is being agitated by Alma
citizens who think it would be paying
investment. st. Louis Republican.
Not until the Sanitarium and Wright
House are enlarged. st. Louis livery
men have brought up the scheme, as
their stock is slow sale this time of the
year, and with this new enterprise they
would have to saw wood this winter
To accommodate number Of young
people, who can attend school not more
than one year, the Alma Union School
has established a one years Cuisines
course including Bookkeeping, Short
hand, Penmanship and Arithmetic